Homer’s Engineering Dun Rite

So last night I went to a play at the local college. On the way up to the tiny little black box they call a theater, I stopped off to answer the call of nature. The light in the cove in front of the door was motion-activated, which I thought was very cool. Way neat, that is, until I sat there for a few minutes after doin’ my bidness and was plunged into complete darkness. I’m a thinker, what can I say?

Harumph. I had to laugh. Seriously, I pee in the dark all the time, so no big. I waved my arm to try to reactivate the lights – nothing. I finished, stood up, left the stall… nothing. Not until I LEFT the bathroom did the lights come back on… because the sensor, of course, was outside the door.

D’OH.

Gotta love them thinkers we gots heer.

Y’all have a good ‘un.

Later.

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Oh My Gawd! I? I have done the same exact thing…except, the sensor was inside the room, so as soon as I left the stall I was plunged back into…lightness. That is hilarious. Bunch o’ rocket surgeons ya got there…

I knew a woman who got “caught short” (Atlantic Canadian speak for “the runs”) at work… she kind of had a sense that it might be fairly offensive, so she went two floors down to use a bathroom that was kind of out-of-the-way and thus less frequented.

It was a nasty, explosive situation requiring quite the concentrated cleanup effort, she told us… and she had no sooner got started than someone else came in, used the facilities (apparently not noticing what was described to us as a fairly unholy demon-stench), and left, TURNING OFF THE LIGHT!!

She was stuck there, in the dark, afraid to move lest she smear unmentionable substances onto her work clothes, and completely at a loss as to what to do – for 25 minutes! She eventually was rescued when the door was opened by a guy who thought he was opening the men’s room door – he’d already stepped back but heard her yelping, “Hello?” and she got him to turn on the light again. When she got back to her floor, she realized the guy who rescued her was her boss! He went to the same floor’s restrooms for the same kind of reason!

Still cracks me up to think of it. One more reason to not be “green”… turning the lights out on unsuspecting crappers!